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Already three feet higher than they should be right now. so not the waves on top of the surge, this is the water that is already in your bay, in your back bay. st. mark's, water is also rising there, so we'll watch that. that's the east side of the storm. the other thing is the heavy rain, flash flood watches up and down the east coast and the surge here, about two to four feet, already at three. and look at what happened over the weekend here on the other pictures you showed. ellicott city, now 8.4 inches of rain fell in that city in less than half a day and that's why all that flooding happe...

These talks up for success? >> well, i'm worried that this kind of summit backlash is kind of -- it is focusing on the wrong issue, which is whether or not there's a summit. the real issue is whether or not a summit can be successful or whether it is going to be a failure. the problem i see right now is that while there's been a lot of this back and forth, i'm not so sure there has been sufficient preparation by both sides in order to ensure that when a summit takes place that it can be successful in laying the ground work for negotiations in the future. i think people are missing the point of...

Any evidence that you have seen that both sides share a mutual understanding? for instance, the key issue here of what denuclearization means, because both sides sent signal in fact their definitions are very different. >> i think that's a real problem. part of it is that, you know, in some ways this has been handled badly from the beginning. the president immediately agreed to going into a summit without any kind of preparation or discussion about what the north koreans were prepared to negotiate. then there's been this kind of almost open speculation by the president in tweets, by national s...

And that's where some surprising developments have taken place on the korean peninsula. an unannounced second face-to-face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea, moon jae-in and north korean leader kim jong-un, meeting again today in the demilitarized zone dividing their two countries and no one knew about it before hand. it was unannounced. paula hancocks is in seoul. paula, what did they talk about and how large did the on again, off again summit with president trump loom over their meeting today? >> reporter: the information we have is fairly limited. they did talk about that...

Violated our sanctions against north korea repeatedly. so it totally undermines our effort to put maximum pressure on north korea to say, oh, we just caught zte cheating and lying about selling goods to north korea, but you know what if you can cut a deal with the president of the united states on some other trade related issue not related to our security, we'll let you off the hook. that sends a terrible message to everybody else with respect to our seriousness about our sanctions on north korea. >> senator van hollen, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up, president trump is incr...